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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Jerry Harris's pregnant daughter is murdered, her uterus removed, and her body thrown in a river. She is found by fishermen six days after she is last seen alive. Jerry Harris commits suicide outside the Sheriff's Office. On this episode of Body Bags Joseph Scott Morgan go behind the evidence and take a look at the body of Jerry Harris' daughter, Jennifer, a murder still unsolved. Dave Mack digs into the story of Jennifer Harris. Who knew she was pregnant and who wanted her dead? The ex-husband? The ex-boyfriend? Did Jerry Harris get so depressed over the murder of his daughter that he killed himself at the Sheriff's office as some kind of challenge? We know Jerry Harris killed himself. Do we know why?
Transcript Highlights
00:00:17.19 Introduction of "Cold Case" and recent suicide
00:03:48.25 Discussion of life and "dark space"
00:07:29.51 Talk about notification of family
00:10:31.93 Discussion of Jennifer Harris before she vanishes
00:14:43.53 Discussion of evidence, finding Jennifer
00:19:47.66 Talk about detaching while investigating
00:25:25.90 Discussion of finding and condition of remains in Red River
00:29:57.94 Talking about water damage
00:33:35.52 Discussion of ex-husband alibi
00:39:03.49 Talk about Jeep, latent hand or palm print
00:40:04.96 Discussion of cabin in the woods, burned down
00:43:30.88 Discussion of skill level of the person removing uterus
00:45:36.30 Conclusion: Blue clay, caretakers' cabin, suicide of Jerry Harris
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0:00.0 | Body backs with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
0:06.0 | I think probably out of all the you know the pantheon of the founders of this country I think probably my favorite of |
0:19.8 | that collection of men it's probably Ben Franklin. I like Ben Franklin and this is why. Ben Franklin |
0:29.1 | lived a life that was not a life of privilege. As a matter of fact, he lived on the streets in the |
0:37.4 | northeast, like Boston, in the wintertime and he you know drank life up to the fullest and he had a lot of |
0:48.8 | ups and downs and being a death investigator, I'm always coming across interesting little quotes. |
0:58.0 | And there was a quote that he had made, he may have written this in Poor Richards. |
1:02.0 | I think that's where it comes from. |
1:05.3 | And his the quote that that I'm interested in today is the one where Ben wrote, nine men in 10 are suicides. And you have to kind of |
1:21.5 | pause on that just for a moment and kind of meditate on it and think about what he is saying there. |
1:29.0 | I don't necessarily think that Ben believed that every nine men that pass away are suicides. |
1:40.4 | However, this is what I think. He had lived enough life. He had seen enough |
1:47.1 | of the tragedy in this world. I think what he meant was that nine and ten men are potentially suicides because of the world |
2:01.2 | around them and sometimes you just don't have control. You don't have |
2:07.3 | control of the circumstances. Today I want to talk about a case that just in and of itself as a coal case is certainly a tragedy |
2:21.0 | but it's bookended by another tragedy. |
2:27.0 | It's tragedy of a man who sought justice for his daughter for over 20 years. |
2:35.0 | She was a homicide victim, but at the end, |
2:40.0 | he wound up taking his own life. |
2:44.0 | Today we're going to talk about the cold case of Jennifer Harris and also her father who recently passed away at his own hand, |
3:00.0 | Jerry Harris. |
3:02.0 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body bags. |
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